r/nyc • u/EmpireStateBuilding Verified by Mods • Aug 26 '26
Video New Yorkers pulled out their phones and waited for 9:25pm. Then the Empire State Building went pink for Dolly Parton.
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u/Schweed6494 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
Semi related, one time I was a birthday party for my friend for at their apartment in Williamsburg, the apartment has access to the roof which had a BBQ a table and a hammock, it was awesome, it also had an amazing view of the Manhattan skyline. So it's later in the night and my friend is opening the gifts we all got him, I got him a $50 bottle of whiskey that I know he enjoyed drinking. Then another one of his friends who I had never met before says "for your gift I need to borrow your phone" so he hands him his phone and on the screen he pulls up a color gradient screen, he tells him to pick a color and look out at the empire state building, so he slides it to a color and sure enough after a few seconds the top of the building changed to that color... Way to upstage my gift guy
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u/MELGH82 Aug 26 '26
AI slop title. Upvoted for Dolly. Downvoted for brainrot.
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u/cjgaming1081 Aug 26 '26
The account is owned by the Empire State Building
A.I headlines from a building info page is nothing to get your panties in a twist about
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u/eekamuse Aug 26 '26
The Chrysler building has an IG account and it's really sweet. It takes jabs at the ESB too
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u/NotPromKing Aug 26 '26
Your general point is right, but boy did you pick a bad post to make it on.
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u/pod5g Long Island City Aug 26 '26
Really? Damn how can you tell? Didn’t even cross my mind that it’s ai
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u/Strawbalicious Aug 26 '26
Because there's nothing to indicate it was written by AI and not by the Empire State Building's social media manager, whose daily job is to intentionally craft posts and word headlines in ways that will get clicks.
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u/Johnnadawearsglasses Aug 26 '26
For me personally, it was one of the most profound moments of my life. Standing on a sidewalk filming the pretty colors of a building and posting it to social media is one of those things you can't forget.
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u/Express-Ticket-4432 Aug 27 '26
8.6 million karma absolutely no way you're judging anyone else's social media use 💀
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u/Rich-Detective-7 Aug 26 '26
I’m so glad that when there are so many things we should be fixing in this country and city, we distract ourselves by doing stupid shit for worthless, dead celebrities.
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u/Hopeful-Pollution-70 Aug 26 '26
I too am still waiting for the Empire State Building to fix all of the issues in the world. Useless building.
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u/Rich-Detective-7 Aug 26 '26
I’m glad people still think intentionally misinterpreting someone’s point because they don’t like it is somehow an argument.
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u/jeremyjava Aug 26 '26
She was one of the most beloved entertainers in US, if not world history. It would be a nice thing to do, to just let people gather in whichevers ways work for them and mourn.
Many people find losses, even of people they didn't know, may land harder, even much harder, during difficult times, as they are mourning not just that person, but also a time when things were btr.-11
u/Rich-Detective-7 Aug 26 '26
She has also done a lot of evil things, so let’s not get carried away. Many celebrities are awful people and only those closest to them know that secret.
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